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Photograph of The Willsboro School
Photograph by Bryan Nelson Elder, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Willsboro School, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Willsboro School is a historic school building located at Willsboro in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1927 and is a three-story red brick building designed in the Neoclassical style in accordance with New York State's standardized school design guidelines of the early 20th century.”

Wikipedia article The Willsboro School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 10 Gilliland Lane (formerly 29 School St), Willsboro, 12996
  • When was it listed? March 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Willsboro town
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 10000135 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1895 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Willsboro School, The, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet covering Willsboro School, The, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Willsboro School, The between 1994 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 1998Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 August 2002Natural3.0 acresNew York Forest RangersSHANTY BROOK FIRE
10 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Willsboro School, The: 19 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Wollastonite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fox Hill QuarryWollastonite, GarnetPast Producer1810, 1939, 1982
Fox KnollGarnet, WollastoniteProducerGrossularite, Wollastonite
Interpace/ Willsboro, N.Y.Wollastonite, GarnetUnknown
Irvin Calkins Graphite ProspectGraphiteProspect
Unnamed QuarryStonePast ProducerSurface
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer
Willsboro MineEmeryPast ProducerEmery
Elsworth Diopside ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Northern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1880, 1890
Cabot Minerals Div. DepositWollastonitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willsboro, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$25,000Damage to Willsboro Bay Marina as well as several large trees.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$20,000Several trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds across Willsboro.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$15,000no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$10,000Multiple trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$10,000Several reports of trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$5,000Trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$5,000Several trees up to half foot in diameter downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$5,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$5,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWillsboro$5,000no account filed
June 2002HailWillsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Willsboro Congregational Church0.3 miles1984
Flat Rock Camp1.2 miles2006
Sheldon-Owens Farm1.6 miles1993
Abraham Aiken House2.1 miles1989
Edgewater Farm2.4 miles1988
Ligonier Point Historic District3.6 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000135 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 114 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.